Even though she publishes books for grown-up people, Tracy is a
kindred sprit, and we will miss her very much - especially her warmth and humour
... and her willingness to go on the coffee run, even in the vilest
weather.

Tracy is moving on to exciting new things at RMIT, and we wish her the very
very best, but we're just going to sing a few more cowboy dirges and stuff our
face with cupcakes while we get used to the idea.

They came express from the kitchen of Amie Kaufman, and brought with them
love from Meagan Spooner. Amie and Meagan are the co-authors of These Broken Stars, which we are super
super excited to be publishing in December this year, partly because we can use
three of our favourite words to describe it: Thriller, Romance and
Science-fiction.****

We've decided we are keeping them. Meagan and Amie, that is. The brownies
are alllll gone.

Caramello koalas.

Inside the brownies.

All in all, it's been a very good day.

* Sorry everyone outside Melbourne, this is an inner-city elite gag.

** No, this is not short for Her Royal.

*** We know about the cutting edge because LB showed us the
colour-photocopied, hand-cut, hand-assembled, recycled paper envelopes she made
for booksellers circa 1999. CUTTING EDGE! (And very pretty.)

**** Okay - maybe we wouldn't normally hyphenate science fiction unless
it was being an adjective, but then it would have been four words and that
didn't scan so well. Editor's prerogative.